Photos: Families say goodbye to sailors

Three destroyers departed San Diego on Monday for a six-month deployment.

Ryan Bartholomew kisses his son Kaden, 6, with a hand on daughter Noelle, 4, while his mother Cherise Bartholomew, right, waits her turn. Bartholomew was departing with the USS William P. Lawrence. Three destroyers departed San Diego Monoday morning for a six-month deployment to the Pacific region for marine security operations. The USS Stockdale, USS Higgins and the USS William P. Lawrence left 32nd Street Naval Base with friends and family dockside waving farewell.
— Peggy Peattie

Ryan Bartholomew kisses his son Kaden, 6, with a hand on daughter Noelle, 4, while his mother Cherise Bartholomew, right, waits her turn. Bartholomew was departing with the USS William P. Lawrence. Three destroyers departed San Diego Monoday morning for a six-month deployment to the Pacific region for marine security operations. The USS Stockdale, USS Higgins and the USS William P. Lawrence left 32nd Street Naval Base with friends and family dockside waving farewell.
— Peggy Peattie

Three destroyers departed San Diego Monday morning for a six-month deployment to the Pacific region for marine security operations with the Nimitz Strike Group Surface Action Force. The Stockdale, Higgins and William P. Lawrence left San Diego Naval Base with friends and family dockside waving farewell. They will join up at sea with the Everett, Wash.-based Shoup.